Ticket #5823 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 7 months ago

Last modified 5 months ago

Unused text and RSS widgets lose data after 2.5 upgrade

Reported by: bryan868 Assigned to: mdawaffe
Priority: high Milestone: 2.5.1
Component: Administration Version: 2.5
Severity: major Keywords: has-patch needs-testing
Cc:

Description

Any text or RSS widgets that contain data and are sitting in your "unused widgets" area will be deleted when you upgrade to 2.5.

2.5 does not have ID support (Text 1, 2, 3, 4) for text or RSS widgets? This could have something to do with it.

Attachments

5823.a.diff (3.9 kB) - added by mdawaffe on 03/28/08 19:29:28.

Change History

02/12/08 06:03:01 changed by ryan

  • owner changed from anonymous to mdawaffe.

03/26/08 23:33:44 changed by bryan868

This is still occurring in RC2. Though I should revise... I meant "available widgets" area. And the widgets aren't "deleted" it's their data/content that is stripped.

03/27/08 13:19:38 changed by Denis-de-Bernardy

  • summary changed from Unused text and RSS widgets lose data after 2.5 upgrade to Registered widgets that aren't used should display in the widget list..

Along similar lines, I'd like to highlight the use case where a theme has more than a single sidebar, which I recently bumped into.

Until WP 2.5 you could drag and drop a widget from one sidebar to another. With the new widget admin screen, you have to open two browser windows (one per sidebar), and dutifully copy and paste the options. :(

03/27/08 19:39:44 changed by bryan868

Why did you change my title to "Registered widgets that aren't used should display in the widget list."? That doesn't really describe the issue.

03/28/08 15:06:51 changed by lloydbudd

  • version set to 2.5.
  • summary changed from Registered widgets that aren't used should display in the widget list. to Unused text and RSS widgets lose data after 2.5 upgrade.

03/28/08 16:44:09 changed by Denis-de-Bernardy

  • summary changed from Unused text and RSS widgets lose data after 2.5 upgrade to Unused text and RSS widgets lose data after 2.5 upgrade + you cannot move widgets from a sidebar to the next.

because the issue you're describing is only one aspect of the (imho blocker) bug that I described further up.

03/28/08 17:18:15 changed by lloydbudd

  • summary changed from Unused text and RSS widgets lose data after 2.5 upgrade + you cannot move widgets from a sidebar to the next to Unused text and RSS widgets lose data after 2.5 upgrade.

Denis, please open a new ticket. The best bug reports are symptom based and describe a signle issue. Please do include a link to this ticket.

03/28/08 19:29:01 changed by mdawaffe

  • keywords set to has-patch needs-testing.
  • status changed from new to assigned.

Unfortunately, the new interface has no means of dealing with such unused but existing instances of multi-widgets.

Attached:

  1. Tweaks the "unused" widgets interface (accessible from the select dropdown): show all unused instances of multi-widgets in that "unused" list.
  2. Incorporates 6349.c.diff on #6349

03/28/08 19:29:28 changed by mdawaffe

  • attachment 5823.a.diff added.

03/29/08 18:47:41 changed by mdawaffe

  • milestone changed from 2.6 to 2.5.1.

04/17/08 20:36:36 changed by ryan

  • status changed from assigned to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

(In [7725]) Tweak unused widgets interface. Make widget titles less repetitive. fixes #6349 #5823 for 2.5

04/17/08 20:37:05 changed by ryan

(In [7726]) Tweak unused widgets interface. Make widget titles less repetitive. fixes #6349 #5823 for trunk